FSTTCS 2004: Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science

Invited Papers.- Genome Halving Problem Revisited.- Verifying Probabilistic Procedural Programs.- Streaming Algorithms for Geometric Problems.- Toward a Grainless Semantics for Shared-Variable Concurrency.- Regular Languages, Unambiguous Concatenation and Computational Complexity.- Contributed Papers.- Decidability of Zenoness, Syntactic Boundedness and Token-Liveness for Dense-Timed Petri Nets.- On the Urgency Expressiveness.- Asynchronous Automata-Theoretic Characterization of Aperiodic Trace Languages.- A Decidable Fragment of Separation Logic.- Approximate Range Searching Using Binary Space Partitions.- Representable Disjoint NP-Pairs.- Symbolic Reachability Analysis of Higher-Order Context-Free Processes.- Optimal Strategies in Priced Timed Game Automata.- A Calculus for Trust Management.- Short-Cuts on Star, Source and Planar Unfoldings.- Subdividing Alpha Complex.- Real-Counter Automata and Their Decision Problems.- Adjunct Elimination Through Games in Static Ambient Logic.- On the Bisimulation Invariant Fragment of Monadic ?1 in the Finite.- On the Complexity of Hilbert's 17th Problem.- Who is Pointing When to Whom?.- An Almost Linear Time Approximation Algorithm for the Permanent of a Random (0-1) Matrix.- Distributed Games with Causal Memory Are Decidable for Series-Parallel Systems.- Expand, Enlarge, and Check: New Algorithms for the Coverability Problem of WSTS.- Minimum Weight Pseudo-Triangulations.- Join Algorithms for the Theory of Uninterpreted Functions.- No, Coreset, No Cry.- Hardness Hypotheses, Derandomization, and Circuit Complexity.- Improved Approximation Algorithms for Maximum Graph Partitioning Problems Extended Abstract.- Learning Languages from Positive Data and a Finite Number of Queries.- The Complexity of the Local Hamiltonian Problem.-Quantum and Classical Communication-Space Tradeoffs from Rectangle Bounds.- Adaptive Stabilization of Reactive Protocols.- Visibly Pushdown Games.- Refinement and Separation Contexts.- Decidability of MSO Theories of Tree Structures.- Distributed Algorithms for Coloring and Domination in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Monotone Multilinear Boolean Circuits for Bipartite Perfect Matching Require Exponential Size.- Testing Geometric Convexity.- Complexity of Linear Connectivity Problems in Directed Hypergraphs.- Actively Learning to Verify Safety for FIFO Automata.- Reasoning About Game Equilibria Using Temporal Logic.- Alternation in Equational Tree Automata Modulo XOR.